10 Responses to The Obama spell begins to break

Not so hasty, Ned, Ivan… Obama’s first 100 days as president aren’t over yet, and an old rule suggests to become impatient only after those. It’s a wise rule, the times may be good or bad.
Besides, time will show if the recent haggling about the stimulus package will make the administration look bad, or if it will open everyones eyes to what the GOP has become: sort of a political sect. Don’t we all agree that Rush Limbaugh is no ideal economic advisor?

Haaa, haaa, haaa… I’m devastated. Almost as devastated as Hu Jintao was after Stuart placed him underneath the Dalai Lama.
On a more serious note, are you aware that your online viewing habits add to CO2 emissions?Wissner-Gross has also calculated the CO2 emissions caused by individual use of the internet. His research indicates that viewing a simple web page generates about 0.02g of CO2 per second. This rises tenfold to about 0.2g of CO2 a second when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos.
(Do a google search for this paragraph. Two links would probably get my comment caught in your spam filter.)

Yes, good point, JR, our friend with the very linear German mind. 😉 But let us point out to you that neither Catherine nor I have automobiles, so on balance our CO2 emissions are immensely less than those of around 90 percent of Americans or Aussies, and (I’m guessing) at least around 60 percent of Germans.